Someadverbs are formed from fossilized proverbial structures of a nounin some casewith optional preposition or pronoun.Such a structureis thenwrittentogether asone word and behaves as one word. They are for example:

vkupie

v kupie (L)

together (originally: in a group)

izjutra

iz jitra (G)

tomorrow (originally: from the morning)

gorie

gorie (L)

up, to the top (originally: a hill in locative)

dolu

dolu (L)

down, to the bottom (originally: a valley in locative)

letom

letom (I)

in/during a summer

zimoj

zimoj (I)

in/during a winter

jutrom

jutrom (I)

in/during a morning/sunrise

včera

večera (G)

yesterday (originally: an evening in genitive)

doma

doma (G)

at home (originally: a house in genitive)

jutras

jutra sego (G)

today morning, this morning (originally: this morning in genitive)

polednes

poledne sego (G)

today noon, this noon (originally: this noon in genitive)

večeras

večera sego (G)

today evening, this evening (originally: this evening in genitive)

dnes

dne sego (G)

today (originally: this day in genitive)

nočis

noči sej (G)

tonight (originally: this night in genitive)

interrogative adverbs and their answers

current location

way-through location

requested location

time

modus

numeral adverb

kdie?

where?

kudie?

where?

kamo?

where?

kogda

when?

jako?

how?

koliko?

howmuch?

interrogative

sdie

here

sdie

here

semo

here

segda

now

-

-

-

-

dmnstr. exactly

tudie,tu

here

tudie,tu

here

tamo

there

togda

that time

tako

this way

toliko

so much

demonstrative

ovdie

here

ovdie

here

ovamo

there

ovegda

that time

ovako

this way

-

-

dmnstr. roughly

ondie

here

ondie

here

onamo

there

onegda

that time

onako

this way

-

-

dmnstr. distantly

indie

elsewhere

inudie

elsewhere

inamo

elsewhere

inogda

another time

inako

other way

-

-

alternatively

inkdie

no where

nikudie

no where

nikamo

no where

nikogda

never

nijako

no way

nikoliko

no

nowise, no way

niekdie

anywhere

niekudie

anywhere

niekamo

anywhere

niekogda

sometimes

niejako

some way

niekoliko

some

some, any

vsekdie

everywhere

vsekudie

everywhere

vsemo

everywhere

vsegda

always

vsjako

all way

-

-

always

Note in this table that there is a lot of symmetries between pronouns, numerals and adverbs made by the same prefixes (e.g. t-, in-, ni-, nie-, vs-). For details, see chapters about pronouns and numerals again.

Adverbs kamo?, semo, tamo, ... can be combined with the prefix ot- (from) in order to make adverb otkamo? (where from?), ot tamo (from there), ...

Gradation of adverbsis very similarto the gradation of adjectives as well.Also it has4 levelsand twomodes: directand descriptive. The prefix is naj- (the same as of adjectives) and suffix is -ieje (or -eje after c, s, z, č, š, ž). There are five irregular adverbs made from the same irregular adjectives in the comparative: bolše, lučše, unše, menše, gorše.